milk

1. 1.

   take milk from female mammals

   “Cows need to be milked every morning”

   Broaderdraw

   Narrowerstrip
2. 2.

   exploit as much as possible

   “I am milking this for all it's worth”

   Broaderexploit
3. 3.

   add milk to

   “milk the tea”

   Broaderadd

Other forms of milk

plural

milks·

past tense

milked·

present participle

milking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about milk

What does milk mean?

milk means "a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in milk?

milk has 1 syllable: milk. In IPA it is /ˈmɪlk/.

What is another word for milk?

Close synonyms include Milk River. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is milk a common word?

milk is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with milk?

1 word rhymes with milk. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.